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Password managers have turned this into near-zero inconvenience: when I arrive at the login page my UID and PW are already filled in. (I also have three hard t
by 0xff00ffee 6y ago
Password managers have turned this into near-zero inconvenience: when I arrive at the login page my UID and PW are already filled in.
(I also have three hard tokens for from banks and investments, two ubikeys (both for LastPass, one in storage), and google authenticator on my iphone for anyone that offers it... so I've taken a step backward for added security.)
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoAll that took very much more than zero effort to set up. More evidence than people will put up with inconvenience for security.
- setr 6y agoI think for most people, they're trading less convenience (manually dealing with passwords, and the randomly changing rules and resets different places use) for more convenience (autofill, managed & synced) Which happens to also be more secure.
- Spivak 6y agoSure, but people with PW managers are reducing their long-term inconvenience by paying a little bit up front. I don't use a PW manager for any security benefit but because it makes it easier to sign into things. Hell, I store my 2FA keys in my pw manager and have it autofill those too -- a reduction in security! But there are some services that refuse to not spam your phone number if you don't set up some 2FA.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoI keep my passwords in my head because I can't put up with managing a dozen different authentication schemes, any one of which could be compromised or lost at the worst possible time.